Apple x86 Ramifications?

[James Sarrett]

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I second that. All pessimism aside, FreeBSD/PPC isn't an apple  
product.  It isn't even targeted apple specific.  If apple wants to  
become a software company or whatever this crazy(cagey?) new strategy  
is, it doesn't make our job as developers(hackers ;-) ) any less  
relevant.  In fact it means that we have a chance to build a better  
box and not compete with one more company.  Don't misunderstand me, I  
love my mac, but FreeBSD serves a completely different purpose.  Many  
people around the various internet news sites have been calling this  
move crazy and terrible, saying it will ruin a good computing  
environment.  We have an opportunity not to do what they are,  
throwing the proverbial bathwater out with the baby.  And don't  
forget guys, AIX is still evil, Linux us still a bad hack job, and  
NetBSD isn't as fast as it should be, so RS/6000s and like peter said  
Pegasos, Freescale and others are largely in need of a real operating  
system, not to mention old and useful Macs.  I say that now FreeBSD  
has a unique opportunity to become a market leader in the PPC world,  
and unless the whole universe has gone topsy-turvy that would be a  
Good Thing™.

Just my $.02

- - -James
On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:17 AM, peterg at ptree32.com.au wrote:


>> Any thoughts on Apple's announcement that they will slowly transition
>> to Intel processors and thus phase out PowerPC? Does IBM's "Power"
>> (power.org) initiative yield a viable target in light of many of us
>> hardware donors being unable to afford any to donate?
>>
>>
>
>  My initial reason for working on FreeBSD/PPC was to support
> embedded CPUs such as the Freescale PowerQUICC. The Apple
> announcement means that decent same-architecture hosts will
> be more scarce in the future, but that doesn't change my primary
> goal :)
>
>  The IBM 970-based blade server could be a viable platform, as
> could PSIII/xbox360/gcube revolution :) PowerPC has a bright
> future I think.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
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